Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

Luxury is the enemy of growth.

Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child's mind.

To become a better you, be willing to make the needed sacrifice. Don't spend your money on luxuries.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It's for the superfluous we sweat.

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we all run in debt.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.